It's important to consider how you treat your domestic worker, what her role and relationship is with your pets and whether she is willing to care for them.
In the view of domestic workers, employers treat their pets better than their workers. Further, they are often given duties in relation to pets, which they despise as being demeaning areas of work.
In research conducted by SACSIS some responses included “I am starting to realize how we are exploited also now. These people have dogs that we must cook for and take them out for walks but that is not part of the agreement.” [1st participant]; “Those dogs eat better than you and sleep better than you.” [2nd participant]; “I cook this chicken for the dog and I eat it before giving it to the dog. Do you know that it must be roasted as well?” [3rd participant]; (Domestic workers from Gugulethu working in a Cape Town suburb).
